Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- MN37
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (Contract end date October 2028)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-TDPD-144
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £45,715 - £69,976 per annum +LDN Weighting + 1B banding
- Closing
- 03/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialty Trainee
MN37
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialty Trainee post is RCOG recognised and is expected to lead to RCOG MFM subspecialist accreditation. Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital provides high- and low-risk maternity care, fetal medicine, obstetric medicine and day assessment services. The Centre for Fetal Care and de Swiet Obstetric Medicine Unit work closely together to support women with complex maternal and fetal conditions.The Centre for Fetal Care provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic options, including fetoscopic laser treatment for monochorionic twins, radiofrequency ablation, fetal blood sampling, intrauterine transfusion, amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling. The Centre for Fetal Care is supported by perinatal cardiology, paediatric surgery, genetic counselling, clinical genetics, fetal neurology, paediatric nephrology and urology, together with maternal and fetal medicine subspecialty trainees, a clinical lecturer/subspecialty trainee and clinical research fellows.
The de Swiet Obstetric Medicine Unit provides tertiary care for pregnant women with complex medical disease and works with specialist obstetricians, obstetric physicians, specialist midwives and consultant physicians.
The department has close links with Imperial College London and adjacent reproductive and developmental research facilities.
Main duties of the job
As a senior trainee within the fetal and maternal medicine services, the trainee will be fully immersed in the running of both services and provide leadership and mentorship to more junior colleagues. Fetal medicine activity includes regular fetal medicine, fetal cardiology, paediatric surgery, fetal neurology and fetal urology clinics, together with fetal medicine multidisciplinary meetings and genetic counselling appointments. Maternal medicine activity includes specialist clinics for haemoglobinopathies, renal disease, cardiac disease, neurological conditions, diabetes, haematology, liver disease, endocrine and metabolic conditions, and pre-pregnancy counselling.
The trainee will attend fetal medicine and maternal medicine multidisciplinary meetings and participate in the delivery of care across the integrated maternal and fetal medicine service.
The trainee will be responsible for preparing for the multidisciplinary meetings and presenting cases in both fetal and maternal medicine and will participate fully in the teaching (weekly) and journal club (alternate weekly) activities.
Clinical activity and the trainee’s weekly timetable will be adjusted in line with progress through the subspecialty training programme as determined by the RCOG curriculum and trainer recommendations.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Based on the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea site, the fetal and maternal services accept referrals from within North West London and also receives national referrals for complex fetal problems. The post will provide structured subspecialty training in maternal and fetal medicine in accordance with the RCOG curriculum. The trainee will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care for women with complex maternal and fetal problems and will participate in fetal medicine and maternal medicine clinics, subspecialty teaching and related clinical activities. The trainee will develop experience in the assessment and management of complex fetal conditions and maternal medical disease in pregnancy.
The trainee will undertake on-call activities on the ST6/7 rota at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital. The exact timetable and balance of activity will vary according to the trainee’s progress through the training programme.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCOG
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Eligible to work in the UK and hold either: • A UK national training number or equivalent, including successful completion of clinical training to at least ST5 level, confirmed by outcome 1 in most recent ARCP or equivalent. or Hold a UK CCT (or Portfolio Pathway) and be on the UK Specialist Register in obstetrics and gynaecology, or hold a CCT or Portfolio Pathway that in due course will entitle you to enter the Specialist Register.
Desirable criteria
- Good progress or completion of SITM/ATSM or equivalent.
- Good progress or completion of SITM in Fetal Care/Prenatal Diagnosis/Maternal Medicine/ATSM in Fetal Medicine or Maternal Medicine
Managing others and team involvement
Essential criteria
- Capacity to work cooperatively with others and demonstrate leadership when appropriate.
- Capacity to work effectively in a multi professional teams (particularly within obstetrics and gynaecology).
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Evidence of active participation in undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching with feedback.
Desirable criteria
- Completion of formal teaching course or qualification
- Completion of educational supervision/mentoring course or experience as educational supervisor
- Experience of giving formal lectures.
- Evidence of leadership in education and training.
- Evidence of completion or progress of SIPM in Medical Education/ATSM in Medical Education
Personal skills Communication and interpersonal skills Empathy and sensitivity
Essential criteria
- Capacity to communicate effectively with patients and staff both verbally and written.
- Capacity to take in others’ perspectives and treat others with understanding and sensitivity.
- Capacity to discuss sensitive issues effectively with others and adapt language as appropriate to the situation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christoph Lees
- Job title
- Consultant Obstetrician
- Email address
- [email protected]
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